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Quick Screen Captures (Mac OS X)

Most Mac owners know the Command-Shift-3 shortcut for creating screen captures of the entire screen. Here’s a few others you may not know about: First, there’s Command-Shift-4, which produces a special crosshair cursor that lets you choose just a small portion of the screen. Both of the preceding captures generally get saved as files directly onto your desktop.

The second one is even cooler, because it saves the screen shot directly to your Clipboard, ready to paste into an application or document or drop into an e-mail. This one is accessed by using Control-Command-Shift-3 for full screens or Control-Command-Shift-4 for just grabbing a selected section.

Once you learn these, you’ll find you use them all the time.

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